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At The Nexus #17: On A Word to Word Basis

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Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss all the action that Western Digital is getting, early Ivy Bridge benchmarks, a marketing campaign that answers to A Higher Calling, a cheap Sprint Android phone, a couple Dropbox updates, the estimated new iPad costs and more, At The Nexus.

This week, Matthew Petschl, garage survivor extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad begin with Matt’s run in with a small military base, Ryan’s TWiT brick and the iPad Special. Then Western Digital buys out Hitachi, sells out to Toshiba while Ivy Bridge benchmarks are revealed, a new marketing campaign from Virgin Mobile by Brandson begins, a cheap Sprint phone, Dropbox updates, potential iPad build costs, and more!

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  • TWiT Brick House Bricks Set 1 by John Slanina
  • A Friendlier Cellphone Brand
  • Sprint: ZTE Fury
  • T-Mobile executive: Key to fixing industry is removing device subsidies
  • New 4G iPad seen costing $310 to make, lowering margins
  • Western Digital-Hitachi: Consolidating Hard Disk Industry
  • Western Digital completes $4.8b Hitachi GST buyout, becomes world’s largest HDD manufacturer
  • FTC to Require Western Digital to Sell off Assets in Acquisition
  • Toshiba to acquire Western Digital’s 3.5-inch HDD manufacturing equipment
  • Intel Ivy Bridge benched early, shows huge leap in graphics
  • Uptime
  • Uptime
  • Next Xbox to lose the disc drive, says MCV
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Wiki
  • Wine FAQ
  • SlashGear: Raspberry Pi delays

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